Not only does this have nothing to do with Unicode, but who cares?
Grumpily,
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
From: N. Ganesan
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 18:35
To: Clive Hohberger
Cc: Indic Discussion List ; Unicode Mailing List
Subject: Re: First known use of the word, "email" (1978)
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Clive Hohberger <[email protected]> wrote:
You might want to look at Wikipedia entry "E-mail". There was a formal
timeshare messaging system:
1978 – EMAIL at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey[36]
This is Shiva Ayyadurai's program written in 1978.
It's very likely that the the term was simultaneously invented in
multiple
places, as deriving "e-mail" in any of its various forms is an obvious
acronym for "electronic mail".
So far, no one before Shiva has used "email" in networked electronic
mail system.
BTW, the routine capitalization of 'E' in E-mail came in the 1990's
from
William Safire's "On Language" column in the NY Times newspaper: He
made the
analogy with "T-shirt".
Acc. to OED, Electonics magazine used the term "E-mail" in 1979.
http://public.oed.com/appeals/email/
N. Ganesan
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